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Call for Papers – Hard and Soft Power: questions of race, intimacy and violence in the comparative colonial toolkit

Posted on March 13, 2014 by

Readers of the blog will hopefully be interested in submitting an abstract for the below conference, held at the University of Kent in July. See strand 3 on ‘colonial intimacy’ in particular. First deadline for proposals is 16th March, but … Continue reading →

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Recent related readings: a digest

Posted on August 11, 2013 by

According to a July blog post from the City of Vancouver Archives, camping on the local beaches used to be a “fashionable” thing for many of the city’s wealthier settler families around the turn of the twentieth century.  (You won’t … Continue reading →

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